Poem

He Does an Act with Colored Cards

  • Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

Cymbalta

  • Stephanie Cleveland

Youth Is Not Absolution for Treachery; It Is a Morning Star of Some Kind

  • Travis Nichols

Car Rolls Off Clay Wade Bailey Bridge

  • Erica Bernheim

Flag

For Christopher Nealon

  • Noah Eli Gordon

Visitation

  • Stephanie Pippin

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From The Us

  • Joan Houlihan

I was astonished at the mysterious slow-motion quality

  • Martha Ronk

Marc Gaba

Winner of the ninth annual poetry context
Introduced by C.D. Wright

  • Marc Gaba

Poet’s Sampler

  • David Blair

Missionary

  • Nick Admussen

The Footfalls of a Great Criminal

Translated by Clayton Eshleman

  • César Vallejo

The Conflict Between the Eyes and the Gaze

  • César Vallejo

Let my mother conquer me, let her

  • Jeremy Valentine Freeman

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Matthew Zapruder

  • Kate Hall

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Stephen Dunn

  • Nicholas Harp

The Ark Of

  • Seth Abramson

from “Angle of Yaw”

  • Ben Lerner

Helpmate

  • Nick Admussen

Song Disowned

  • Bruce Smith

Facilitas

  • Garth Greenwell

Nativity

  • L.S. Klatt

The God that Took the Place of Pleasure

  • Judith Hall

Pilgrim Sonnet

 
beginning with a line after Hopkins

  • Andrew Grace
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